I know how that feels actually. I've been kicked by a horse square in the ribs before, and I toppled over backwards in the stable and just lay there for a half-hour because I couldn't breathe at all, and once I could, I just felt too sick to get up. My cousin ran up, and claimed that I acted exactly like Frodo. I had this squinched expression on my face, and I was making gasping/gurgling noises.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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